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Reform Councillor’s Apology After Suggesting Only People with ‘Anglo-Saxon Heritage’ Can Be English
Doncaster representative Alexander Jones deleted Facebook posts he wrote following the Huntingdon track attacks. Josiah Mortimer reports
Reform UK Leader Nigel Farage has praised the ‘energetic’ nature of Alexander Jones Photo: PA/Alamy
A Reform UK councillor who claimed on Facebook that being “English” was tied to racial “lineage” and “Anglo-Saxon heritage” said his comments were “open to interpretations” and apologised for “any offence caused” – after being contacted about the remarks by Byline Times.
In posts responding to the mass stabbing attack on the Doncaster to London King’s Cross train in Huntingdon in November, Doncaster Reform Councillor Alexander Jones attributed the crime to individuals who were “not English” and instead “black and of Caribbean descent” – despite the alleged perpetrator being British.
When a commenter noted that fact, Jones replied that being “English” was tied to racial “lineage” and “Anglo-Saxon heritage” – appearing to imply that people of colour born in the UK cannot be English.
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